Sell Your Coins, Gold & Collectables in South West London

If you've been searching for somewhere to sell gold sovereigns, work out how much your old British coins are worth, or quietly handle an inherited coin collection, you're in the right place. Thames Coins & Collectables is an established local buyer based in Teddington, run personally by Nick Barker. We cover the whole of South West London and large parts of Surrey, and we've spent years helping families turn long-held collections into a fair, immediate cash offer.

A lot of our work begins with gold sovereigns and half sovereigns. We pay strong prices over melt for clean, undamaged sovereigns, and a genuine premium for the rarer dates and mintmarks. Not sure what you've got? Our guide on how much your gold sovereign is worth in 2026 walks through it in plain English, and our spotting a fake sovereign piece shows you the simple checks we use ourselves.

We also handle full coin collections — albums of pre-decimal British coins, silver crowns and florins, world coins, hammered and milled. If you've inherited an album and don't know where to start, the calmest first step is our guide on selling an inherited coin collection, with a companion piece on how to sell old British coins and a UK silver coin values reference if you have a tin of crowns and half-crowns to look up.

We provide free home valuations across Teddington, Twickenham, Richmond, Kingston upon Thames, Hampton, Wimbledon, Putney, Barnes, Chiswick, Esher and the surrounding villages. There's no charge to have us visit, no obligation to sell, and no pressure if you'd rather think it over. If you'd like to proceed, we pay immediately — by cash or instant bank transfer — on the day, in your home.

Beyond coins, we buy old British banknotes (white fivers, old £1 notes, ten shilling notes — see our selling old banknotes guide), gold and silver jewellery, vintage watches, military medals and badges, small Georgian and Victorian antiques, and the kinds of vintage collectables that surface during a house clearance. Before you skip-out a relative's home, please read our house clearance valuation checklist — a single phone call regularly saves families hundreds of pounds.

Whether you're searching for where to sell gold sovereigns near me, a trusted coin buyer in Richmond, Kingston or Twickenham, an old banknote valuation, or simply an honest second opinion on what something is worth, please call Nick Barker directly on 07956 520733. We're rated 5 stars on Google and always happy to give honest advice — even if you don't sell to us.